UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY: THE NECESSARY PARTNERSHIP

An Industry-University Partnership Case Study

At many universities, senior undergraduate mechanical engineers work in teams on industrysponsored capstone design projects. These projects provide an excellent opportunity for students to synthesize their courses, work with the more realistic deadlines and expectations of industry, and interact with company representatives. It also give industrial partners a chance to become educational partne...

Promoting Industry-University Partnership in Information Technology

It is becoming increasingly difficult for Nigerian universities to go it alone in terms of serving as a citadel of learning, coping with the huge wage bill and competing with their peers in other parts of the world, due to competitive, economic and other pressures. As a consequence, Nigerian universities are left with no option than to carry their industrial partners along in terms of research ...

Manpower Development: Role of Industry – University Partnership

1 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India. Tel: 91-44-2578297, FAX: 91-44-2572545/ 2570509, email: [email protected] Abstract − The most important factors of national competitiveness veer around the skilled human resources. The ascendancy of information technology and the intellectual capital in the current millenium w...

University – Industry Partnership : Meeting the Challenges of the 21 st Century

Using the Web to Enable Industry-University Collaboration: An Action Research Study of a Course Partnership

This paper discusses a course partnership involving Day & Zimmermann, Inc. (DZI), a large engineering and professional services company, and Temple University. The course was taught between the months of May and July of 1999 and its main goal was to teach students business process redesign concepts and techniques. These concepts and techniques were used to redesign five business processes from ...